Thesis - critical and contextual approach to ceramics

This year aside of my studio project I have to write thesis - 'Using industrial ceramics forms and techniques to produce art objects.'
I thought that maybe some of you will find it interesting or helpful, so I will put up some of my research. The articles and essays are really interesting and I think that they explain well the 21st Century approach to ceramics combining art, design and craft.

I will update this post as I go along and add more texts.

'Otherwise unobtainable: the applied arts and the politics and poetics of digital technology.' T.Harrod,
'Patterns of making: thinking and making in industrial design.' H.Rees
'Contemporary clay.' C. Twomey
'Object Factory II' M.Cecula and D. Kopala

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Porcelain Paperclay

I still don't know exactly how my finished pieces are going to look like but I know that I want to make something light and translucent. That is why I had decided to work in porcelain. Some of the forms can be too difficult to construct in porcelain without risking that they will collaps in the kiln. In order to overcome this obstacle I had prepared some paperclay which is lighter and hopefully will keep the shape better. First I cut porcelain in small pieces and let them get bone dry. Then I crushed them even more and added water to make smooth slip. When I had porcelain slip prepared I teared up some toilet paper and soaked it in hot water. After some time I sieved it and mixed with porcelain slip.

Blast from the past :D

I was cleaning my apartment this week and I found very old drawings - some even from 2002 but I won't show them :) Here are some drawings I did in 2007 They are far from good and I like to think I could do better now :) At the time I was making them I was attending Portfolio Preparation Course in Limerick College of Further Education and all of the above were my homework life drawings of Tomek. I was very 'stressed' in them and couldn't loosen up even though I was trying - I was still afraid of the big white page in front of me. All my skills and approach was straight from polish art course - it was all about the technique and I didn't know anything about creativity and was a bit scared when I discovered that I am able to make crazy thing as well: They are all a product of one night work :) I got crazy and was drawing to the music - as you can see it made me happy. This batch of drawings is the 'looses...

Oldies

I decided to put some photos from last year just to broaden the perspective of my work :) Samosas teapots Collection project Hunt museum project

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